Scotiabank Giller Prize

Audible Canada is inviting emerging First Nations, Inuit and / or Métis writers to apply now for the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle, a six-month mentorship and workshop program that the Scotiabank Giller Prize team is proud to support. The inaugural Writers' Circle launches this summer, learn more and apply by April 30 here: audible.ca/ep/IWC #AudibleWritersCircle

The Booker Prizes announced their 2021 International Booker Prize shortlist today. Congratulations to the authors! The list includes: At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, Pushkin Press... The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, Granta Books When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, Pushkin Press The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Lolli Editions In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale, Fitzcarraldo Editions The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard, translated from French by Mark Polizzotti, Pan Macmillan, Picador #2021InternationalBooker

On Monday we hosted our third Giller Master Panel: Graphic Novels Take Centre Stage. The panel explored the art and culture of graphic novels as well as what has made them so popular in the last decade. Moderated by the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Michael Redhill, the group featured the following Canadian graphic novelists: Johnnie Christmas, Meags Fitzgerald, Lorina Mapa and Seth. Please visit www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca to learn about upcoming Giller Master Panel events.

Join Michael Redhill in conversation with Johnnie Christmas, Meags Fitzgerald, Lorina Mapa and Seth. The Giller Master Panel, Graphic Novels Take Centre Stage will take place tonight at 7 p.m. ET. Register to attend here: https://bit.ly/2ONH377 ... Michael Redhill is a novelist, poet, playwright and former publisher of Brick Magazine. He is the author of Bellevue Square which won the 2017 #ScotiabankGillerPrize Consolation and Martin Sloane, which was a finalist for the 2001 Scotiabank Giller Prize; the short story collection Fidelity; and the poetry collection Light-Crossing, among other acclaimed works. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.